“You know what’s special about Mario’s restaurant? It’s Mario. Mario makes the restaurant.” Bob White said that. Don Day heartily agrees with what he said. And he thinks every one of the other nine guys who were there for lunch with us last week...
Don Day had lunch with Don Day’s Wife today. There was just the two of them so it was all about what and where they wanted to eat. Don Day wanted tongue, a dish that is generally only available as street food. Don Day’s Wife wanted asparagus, a dish that...
Don Day used to be in the advertising business. And when you’re in the ad biz, you learn to use words that sell in your ad copy. Words like amazing, free, colossal, reduced, special, professional, rare and lifetime. Don Day’s favorite advertising words...
Don Day’s father was a Scotsman. Well, actually, not just a Scotsman but, according to Don Day’s mother, a bloody great Scotsman. What is a bloody great Scotsman? He’s a man who wears a kilt to formal occasions, appreciates the tossing of a...
It was about six, maybe seven years ago. I was perched at the far end of Harry’s Bar in San Miguel de Allende. From there you could have a bird’s eye view of pretty much everything that was going on. And there was always something going on. What was going...
Many, many years ago, an 18-year-old Canadian boy came to Mexico for the summer. He had learned that by spending six weeks with a family in this faraway foreign land, he would receive a university credit in Spanish. He had dreamed that the Mexican family would, like...
The number of times Don Day’s mother warned him. Don’t talk to strangers on the street. But Don Day never listened. And still doesn’t. The latest stranger I started talking to was on a street called Hernandez Macias in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico....
It’s not impossible to find in the middle of Mexico but it’s definitely not easy. Don Day is talking about fish that can be savored in its cleanest and most elegant form, sushi grade fish. Lack of sustainability has taken away Don Day’s favorite fish...
Location. Location. Location. The three most important words in real estate are almost as important in the restaurant biz. Especially when it comes to burritos in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. When Don Day first arrived in San Miguel, he used to get his burrito fix...
It was the inaugural 2014 meeting of the gentlemen who lunch, a group of guys who, obviously from their youthful yet rugged good looks, retired long before they could claim their pension benefits, They were all also smart enough to have chosen the world’s best...
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